BMW Busting Out With All-Electric; Sports Hybrid

Posted on November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment

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By Charles Murray – Two new BMWs — the all-electric i3 and the hybrid-electric i8 — will hit the streets in 2013 and 2014, respectively, BMW said.

“If you can tell your designers that they have freedom from having to house this big engine that needs airflow around it, it opens up your ability to rethink what the automobile is,” Tom Plucinsky, a BMW spokesman, said in a Design News interview. “That’s why our engineers worked so closely with our designers. They rethought how to design a car that is purely electric.” more> http://twurl.nl/crijo4

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